The Australian Key Centre in Transport Management
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THE AUSTRALIAN KEY CENTRE IN TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT Annual Report 20112010 This Key Centre is a joint venture between: THE AUSTRALIAN KEY CENTRE IN TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2011 CONTENTS The Key Centre 2 Director’s Report 3 Highlights 4 Learning and Teaching 6 Research Funding 19 Public Lecture Series 22 Publications 26 Professional Honours and Engagements 38 In the Media 44 Our People 46 THE KEY CENTRE The Commonwealth Key Centre of Teaching and These objectives are achieved by the Key Centre Research in Transport Management is a joint by:‐ venture between the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies in the University of Sydney • developing and offering graduate transport Business School (ITLS‐Sydney) and the Institute of and logistics management programs, industry Transport Studies in the Department of Civil programs, certificates, executive programs and Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne short courses; (ITS‐Monash). The Key Centre was established in 1995; for 16 years the Australian Federal • bringing high quality transport and logistics government has continued to recognise it as a management programs to people outside centre of excellence in teaching and research in all Sydney and Melbourne (both nationally and areas of transport management including supply globally), as well as widening the offerings of chain management, transport economics, transport courses within Melbourne and Sydney, engineering, transport planning, and transport through access to courses provided by both modelling. ITLS‐Sydney and ITS‐Monash; OUR CONSTITUTION • contributing to Australia’s growing participation in the Asia Pacific region in a The primary object of the Key Centre is to leadership role in transport and logistics undertake graduate teaching, executive programs, management; grant and contract research and development in • widening the range of courses available for the fields of transport and supply chain middle level professional managers in critical management studies. The work of the Key Centre areas of transport and logistics management also has the following objectives: not currently served; • To provide a focus for University work in • equipping managers in all disciplines (i.e. , areas of transport and logistics management engineering, economics, planning), the small and to establish an ambience attractive to those business sector and local government to committed to excellence in graduate transport succeed in the face of technological, economic and logistics management programs and and institutional change; research. • building on the recognised need for stronger • To collaborate, to the fullest extent possible, links between education of engineers, planners, with other parties having an interest in policy analysts and managers in transport and transport and logistics management studies logistics management; and its applications. • undertaking research to develop state‐of‐the‐ • To offer specialised training courses, art management practices and technical workshops, short courses and seminars on methods; and topics of interest in the area of transport and logistics management. • transferring the knowledge developed through research to client groups through the Key • To seed the development, in Australia, of Centre’s publications, workshops, conferences, innovative ideas in transport and logistics seminars, and by participation in networks of policy and professional practice in which the transport and logistics stakeholders. Key Centre plays a role. Page 2 of 50 DIRECTOR’S REPORT Cambridge University Press in early 2012. Over 2011 marks the 16th year since the establishment of the year, I am proud to say that Key Centre staff the Key Centre. The individual nodes have a much authored 21 book chapters, 76 journal papers and longer independent history: the transport group at delivered 90 papers to conferences around the ITS‐Monash celebrated their 40th anniversary in world. 2009 and next year Key Centre staff will come Key centre staff continue to be recognised for the together at a major function to celebrate ITLS‐ contributions they make to industry and Sydney’s 21 years as an institute. government sector activities. Professor Corinne The Key Centre has grown to 30 permanent Mulley and I became members of the federal academics and researchers supported by eight Infrastructure Australia’s Reference Group on professional staff and complemented by 20 Public Transport Policy and the Specialist honorary and adjunct affiliates and sessional Advisory Group of Transport for NSW’s Long‐ lecturers. We welcomed four new staff members in term Transport Master Plan. Adjunct Professor 2011. At ITS‐Monash Dr Nirijan Shiwakoti joined John Stanley was appointed to the Board of as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering and Bill Directors of the Urban Renewal Authority Victoria. Kilpatrick joined as a Senior Research Officer in Associate Professor Stephen Greaves was awarded the Transport Safety Program. After completing a prestigious visiting research fellowship with the their doctorates at ITLS‐Sydney, Dr Geoffrey Université Paris‐Est in Paris and spent one month Clifton and Dr Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya joined there working on a collaborative research project the academic staff of the institute as Lecturers in, involving the use of GPS in the French national respectively, Transport Management and Logistics travel survey. Management. In 2011 ITLS‐Sydney also secured Thredbo 12 (The 12th International Conference on the establishment of new Chairs in Ports and Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Maritime Logistics and Transport and Logistics Transport) was held in Durban, South Africa in Network Modelling, and Senior Lectureships in September in partnership with ITLS‐Africa; I thank Aviation Management and Ports and Maritime, Professor Jackie Walters and his team at the positions which will be filled in 2012‐13. University of Johannesburg for delivering the best The Key Centre won three Australian Research conference in the series to date. Council Discovery Project grants in 2011 for I would like to acknowledge the commitment and research commencing in 2012. Professor Peter dedication of Dr Alastair Stone and Adjunct Stopher won funding to undertake research on Professor John Stanley in chairing our Boards of travel‐time budgets, using GPS panel data Advice. These Boards continue to provide collected over the past several years by ITLS‐ important advice and direction to the Key Centre. Sydney. ITS‐Monash won funding to investigate In 2011, John Stanley and the ITS‐Monash Board innovative urban traffic congestion solutions and I played a pivotal role in the internal review of the was pleased to receive another Discovery Project institute. Our success is also, in no small measure, grant, with Associate Professor John Rose, to due to the extraordinary support we enjoy from research the valuation of service reliability and Professor Edwina Cornish (Deputy Vice‐ crowding as demand drivers for public transport. Chancellor (Research), Monash University) and With Associate Professor John Rose, I published an Professor Tyrone Carlin (Acting Dean, University edited collection of foundational contributions to of Sydney Business School). It continues to be my choice modelling (Edward Elgar). Professor very great pleasure to serve as the Director of the Graham Currie published the findings of a highly Key Centre. The working environment brings a successful, international research project exploring great deal of joy to me, overwhelmingly due to the links between social exclusion, transport team we have. A special thanks to all Key Centre disadvantage and psychological wellbeing in a staff. new Emerald Book titled New Perspectives and Methods in Transport and Social Exclusion Research. Professor Peter Stopher completed his book Collecting, Managing, and Assessing Data Using Sample Surveys which will be published by Professor David Hensher Key Centre Director Page 3 of 50 HIGHLIGHTS and eighth position in Transportation’s (Springer) RESEARCH FUNDING SUCCESS top ten of their most requested articles, for his papers, respectively, The Mixed Logit model: The In 2011 the Key Centre won three Discovery state of practice (co‐author William H. Greene), Bus Project grants from the Australian Research rapid transit systems: a comparative assessment (co‐ Council; the only three grants nationally to be author Thomas F. Golob) and Stated preference awarded for research in the area of transportation analysis of travel choices: The state of practice. His and freight services. Funding for these grants is paper – Some insights into the key influences on trip‐ extremely competitive with a national success rate chaining activity and public transport use of seniors for 2011 applications of only 21.95%. The grant and the elderly – was in the top ten of the most cited won by Dr Majid Sarvi and Professor Graham articles in the International Journal of Sustainable Currie is the first of this type to be awarded to ITS‐ Transport (2008‐10, Taylor & Francis). Honorary Monash and will fund research on Innovative urban Professor David Walters was named as one of the traffic congestion solutions. Professor David Hensher top 25 most published authors in the International and Associate Professor John Rose won their grant Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics for research on Valuation of service reliability and Management (Emerald). crowding under risk and uncertainty: Neglected drivers Professor Hensher and of demand for public transport and Professor Peter Associate